Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the winter months the tubers of tropical waterlilies can be stored in damp sand well away from frost and can be brought back into growth the following year — but it does pay to check them at regular intervals . |
| 2 | Does he agree that the most effective action that could be taken to end homelessness would be if Labour-controlled London councils brought back into use the many thousands of empty homes under their control ? |
| 3 | When the driver brought her back from school the next day she was still agitated . |
| 4 | I was back in court the next day and I ended up getting twelve months for GBH [ grievous bodily harm ] on a police officer . |
| 5 | Richard how far does the christening go back in church the baptismal book ? |
| 6 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 7 | For in 1613 The Globe was ‘ burnt to the ground ’ , to be back in action the following year . |
| 8 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
| 9 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 10 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 11 | Within the party , the vote has brought back to life a dormant distaste for Mr Salmond and his strategy . |
| 12 | The following sortie , on the 14/16th , was to bomb the synthetic oil plant at Merseburg-Leuna , diverting on its return to East Moor in Yorkshire along with other aircraft of the Squadron , returning back to base the following day . |
| 13 | When do the kids , the kids go back to school the first week so if you go |
| 14 | Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre . |
| 15 | What he had done , he had done because he wanted to make some contribution , pay back to society the great debt he felt by being born to such privilege . |
| 16 | Although the drawing made it back to civilisation the pickled head , along with the rest of the ship , was lost . |
| 17 | Back at home the first positive political opposition to the philosophy of nuclear deterrence , upon which the Sandys Reformation depended , began to crystallize with the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 18 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 19 | We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) . |